Parking ticket revenues for the city took a dive last year — dropping roughly $500,000 to just under $2 million — as police are issuing fewer citations.
It’s a trend officials attribute to increased vigilance among drivers to dodge...

BURBANK — Some types of violent and property crimes increased slightly in Burbank for the first six months of this year, due mostly to a jump in thefts, according to police statistics released this week.
There were 1,703 Part I crimes, which...

Changing a months-long trend of a dwindling housing market, more homes went up for sale throughout the Glendale area last month compared to a year ago, according to the latest real estate report.
Condominiums saw the biggest increase, going from 27 in...

At least 15 vehicles and motorcycles have been stolen off Glendale streets in the past two weeks, although police say the figure doesn’t necessarily represent a trend.
Police officials say they haven’t established any leads, or made any...

A building ridge of high-pressure is expected to push the mercury into the upper-80s this week, according to the National Weather Service.
Temperatures will hit the mid-80s in the tri-city area today before peaking on Wednesday, "especially in the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys," the weather service said.
The heat won't start subsiding until Friday, when daytime temperatures are expected to remain in the mid-70s through the weekend.
Despite the warming trend, overnight lows will continue to be...

Time flies faster the older you get, so it seems like only yesterday — not a year ago — that I was offered the opportunity to write a Sunday column for the News-Press & Leader and other community newspapers in the Times Community News group.
It has been an eye-opening experience.
The contrast between life in the suburbs and in the big city next door is stark in every way.
I meet a lot of people who live on the Valley floor, in Eagle Rock, and in other middle-class communities across Los...

You know it’s hot when hitting 90 degrees is considered a cooling trend, but that’s what region has to look forward to Sunday evening, when a week of triple-degree heat is expected to start subsiding.
For now, the National Weather Service has issued excessive heat warnings through 8 p.m. Friday night, because of the combination of high temperatures and relatively high humidity for the Southland -- 20% to 30%.
In the Burbank-Glendale region, temperatures could hit 105 on Friday, and then...

Bruce Willis must really like projects that muck with time or at least involve confrontations between past and present: from his first major feature, “Sunset” (old guy vs. young guy, real West vs. more modern myths of the West) through “Lucky Number Slevin” with its deceitful layers of narrative, to (obviously) “Pulp Fiction.” One might even (in a stretch) include his voice-over for “Look Who's Talking,” whose central joke was derived from the clash...

Electronic books and readers may be growing in popularity, but a random sampling of patrons at the Glendale Central Library recently revealed a certain knowledge gap about the trend.
“I did not know the library lends them to the public,” Nestor Del Rosario, a 62-year-old Eagle Rock resident, said of ebooks.
She was standing outside the library Thursday morning waiting for it to open.
“I don’t even know what the ebook is,” she added.
Aracelli Valdivia, a 41-year-old...